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| HC seeks status on return of SPS Museum items from outside state | | | S Sabaqat
Srinagar, Oct 26: Jammu and Kashmir High Court today has directed state government to file status report within four weeks about the response to letters written by it to Directors of Moti Lal Nehru Children Centre Lucknow (UP) and the State Museum Shimla for returning artifacts of SPS Museum which have been lying outside the state.
Division Bench comprising Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) passed these directions.
As per a status report filed by Chief Secretary, 31 coins of Kashmir and one-gun bearing accession number 412 along with other artifacts have been transferred/gifted to Shimla Museum in 1973 while 25 coins have been gifted/ transferred to Moti Lal Nehru Children Centre, Lucknow.
The court also granted University of Kashmir four more weeks to return 209 items, which were transferred to Central Asian Museum of the KU on August 25 1980. According to government 209 objects were transferred to Central Asian Museum, University of Kashmir on August 1980.
The government also submitted that five bronze and one wooden object were stolen from SPS Museum during the night of August 9/10, 1973, and an FIR was lodged in Police Station Sadar Srinagar which later has closed the case as "untraced".
It was also submitted that a copy of Holy Quran bearing the seal of Emperor Aurangzeb was reported missing from the SPS Museum in 2003 and an FIR was lodged by the Department in Police Station Rajbagh. The report added as per concerned Police Station the said case is under investigation with the Crime Branch. The PIL, filed by General Secretary of Valley Citizen Council (VCC) Imdad Saqi, has sought directions for the protection and conservation of artifacts, monuments and excavation sites in valley. The PIL also stated the archaeological excavations and artifacts of Kashmiri's rich heritage have been neglected and alleged that 84 rare coins went missing from the SPS Museum. |
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